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Home My WebLink AboutCity Council - 96-71 RESOLUTION NO. 9 6—71 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH ESTABLISHING THE LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT FEE REQUIRED BY CHAPTER 17.66 OF THE HUNTINGTON BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH hereby resolves as follows: Section 1. Purpose_ The purpose of this resolution is to establish the methods for calculating the amount of the Library Development Fee, and to establish certain other standards for administration of the Fee. Section 2. Findings. City Staff, with the assistance of the consulting firm of Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler, Inc., prepared the Report entitled"Library Development Fee," dated August 9, 1996. After review of the Library Development Fee Report, other staff reports, and testimony and information received at a noticed public hearing on this matter, the City Council makes the following findings in support of establishment of a Library Development Fee: A. It is estimated that the total cost per new resident of meeting the library service standards is $389.11 per capita. The recent Central Library expansion cost $10,130,000 for 42,600 square feet of building space for a cost per foot of$237.79. In addition, financing costs will approximate $5,709,270, or $134.02 per square foot. The acquisition cost per volume averages $42.96_ Table 1 shows the cost on a per capita basis: 1 SF/s:PCD.ResoL Libryfee 8/8I96-#7 TABLE I >. . . . eice #andud: Them Cost Per'Cp�ta test PerOpl#a Buildings: Construction $237.79/Sq. Ft. .7 $ 166.45 Financing 134.02/S . Ft. .7 93.81 Library Books 42.96 per item 3 128.88 and Materials `0ta B. The average persons per Huntington Beach household is 2,62. Therefore, the cast for the average household equals 2.62 x$389.11 = $1,019.55. To convert to a cost per square foot per household, this number is divided by the average dwelling unit of 2,000 square feet for a cost of$0.5098. Historically, the City has expended an average of 11% of library expenditures for capital and book purchases. Therefore, it is assumed that 1.65 cents of the 15- cent special tax on development is used for these purposes. This would reduce $0.5098 to $0.4933. C. A City Library survey indicates that 11.1% of the visitors to the Library work in, but do not live in, the City. Therefore, residential square footage fee is reduced by 11.1%, to $0.44. Then, using 11.1% of the residential cost per capita, a non-resident worker adds $43,34 to the cost of the library system. Employees working but not living in Huntington Beach represent 73% of all employees. This results an average cost per employee of$31.64. 2 SF/s:PCD:ResoI:Ubryfee 8,`8/96-#7 This amount is multiplied by the number of employees per square foot of building space. The results are as follows: Residential $0.44 Commercial: Office $0.09 Retail $0.04 Service $0.04 Industrial: Light $0.09 Heavy $0.05 Warehouse $0.00 D. Notwithstanding the above costs per square foot of keeping pace with library demands, the City Council has chosen to establish reduced library development fees as set forth below. Section 4. Definitions. For the purposes of this resolution, the following terms shall be defined as follows.- A. "Building and Safety Director" shall mean the Building and Safety Director of the City of Huntington Beach or his/her designee. B. "Commercial or industrial Development Project" shall mean the construction of new Floor Area on a lot in any of the Non-Residential Zoning Districts of the City. 3 SF/s:PCD:Resol:Libryfee 8/8/95-#7 C. "Development Project" means any residential, commercial or industrial Development Project. D. "Governmental or Public Facilities" shall mean publicly owned buildings and structures used for the purposes of conducting City, County, State or Federal Government business. Such facilities shall include, but not be limited to, city halls, police and fire stations, offices, equipment yards, sanitation facilities, schools, recreation centers, and similar facilities. Private commercial development projects leasing publicly owned land shall not be considered Governmental or Public Facilities. E. "Floor Area" shall mean the area of all floors and levels as defined in the Huntington Beach Building Code. F. "Library Facilities" means library building space and Library Materials, which are owned and operated by the City of Huntington Beach. G. "Library Materials" means books, magazines, video cassettes, compact disks, computer programs, and other reference and circulation materials. H. "Planning Director" shall mean the Planning Director of the City of Huntington Beach, or his or her designee. 4 SF/s:PCD:Resol:Libryfee 8/8/96-#7 I. "Residential Development Project" shall mean the construction of a dwelling unit on a Iot in any of the residential zoning districts of the City. For purposes of this Section, the addition of Floor Area shall be considered construction of a Residential Development Project if the additional Floor Area exceeds fifty (50) percent of the existing Floor Area, as determined by the Building and Safety Director. Section 5. Amount,of the Library Development Fee for Residential Development Projects. The Library Development Fee is hereby established to be $0.25 per square foot of gross floor area of a Residential Development Project. Section 6. Amount of the Library Development Fee for Commercial and Industrial Development Projects. The Library Development Fee is hereby established to be $.03 per square foot of gross floor area of a Commercial or Industrial Development Project, provided that no fee will be charged warehouse projects. Section 7. Severabili . If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Resolution is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the Resolution. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Resolution, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clause, phrases or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. 5 SFA PCD:Resollibryfee 9/9/96-#7 PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 19thday of August , 1996. 4441� Mayor TTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: City Clerk ity ttorney �,f REVIEWED AND APPROVED: TIA AND APPROVED: K y Administrator Director of racy Services 6 SF/s:PCD:Reso1:Libryfee 8/8/96-#7 CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH INTER-DEPARTMENT COMMUNICATION - HUNTINGTON BEACH TO: Melanie Fallon, Director of Community Development Ross Cranmer, Building& Safety Director Howard Zelefsky, Planning Director FROM: Gail.Hutton, City Attorney W , DATE: October 9, 1996 SUBJECT: Community Development Fees, Library Development Fee The City Council recently adopted a Library Development Fee. The:Council also increased certain Community Development fees pursuant to Resolution No. 96-8.7 at its September 16, 1996 meeting. Section 5 of the Library Development Fee Ordinance references an effective date of the Fee as October 18, 1996, 60 days after the public hearing introducing the ordinance. However, the ordinance approving the Fee was adopted September 3, 1996, and 60 days thereafter is November 3, 1996. Consequently, you should implement the Fee on November 3, 1996, not October 18, 1996. We will process a Code Amendment to confirm this.correction. PLC has already been'notified of this correction. As to the Community Development fees referenced in Resolution No. 96-87, no reference was,included delaying the effective date of those feea for 60 days, as opposed to immediate w implementation of the other fees increased by that Resolution. However, statutorily, such a limitation is imposed pursuant to Government Code § 66017, which provides that"any action adopting a fee or charge, or increasing a fee or charge adopted, upon a development project shall be effective no sooner than 60 days following the final action on adopting the fee or charge or increasing the fee or charge." Given this requirement, despite the fact that there is no express language in Resolution No. 96-87 imposing the 60-day requirement, it is required, and by way of this memorandum, the Community Development Department is instructed to not begin enforcing the fee increases contained in Resolution 96-87 until November 15, 1996. � . Ono* � cl� � _ f G? CP e r� E Gail Hutton ra n%rQ_ City Attorney c: Connie,]Brockway, City Clerk . : . SF/s:G:SF-96Memos:Fees0927 : 10)9/96-#4 Res. No. 96-71 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss: CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH ) I, CONNIE BROCKWAY, the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said City, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven, that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the members of said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the 19th day of August, 1996 by the following vote-. AYES: Harman, Leipzig, Bauer, Sullivan, Dettloff, Green, Garofalo NOES: None ABSENT: None 6/0� &"&40r City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California G/mso1uWresbkpg/96-100